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Show T- I Through the instrumentality of its geological survey department, the government will essay the j task of instructing our miners of the precious V metals to extract greater values from their ores. This is one of the legitimate functions of civil government, ami is to be commended. The government gov-ernment might, in the interest, of justice and : . f equity, go one step farther, and adopt measures that would permit the benefits of such operations to inure to the people as a whole. If it is wise. ' just and expedient that the public should own and ' ; control all public utilities, i? it not eminently ? just and proper that the natural resources of a country should be strictly conserved for the public ' benefit i This is one of the vital problems that ' must be intelligently solved, fraught with much 'I difficulty and perplexity though the solution be. ere we can truthfully and consistently maintain ' I that our government is one "of, by and for tho people." a . -v - ; Editor W. S. Dalton of the Crisis is reported as ? saying, in a speech at Federation hall, this city, recently, that the churches can't be expected to help the laboring man, inasmuch as they are. with very few exceptions, under the domination of the oppressors of labor. If Mr. Dalton will watch ' the columns of the Catholic press he will doubtl-' soon materially modify this view. Catholic editors, as well as Catholic priests, fail not to recognize that their chief concern, as disseminators of the Gospel, is the well-being of the masses. If Catholic 'priests elo not make a practice of : discussing the labor problem frequently from the pulpit, it is, no doubt, because they believe that justice may, and in the end shall, be made-to pre- vail by the efficacious inculcation of the doctrines : of Christ, as taught by the Church, without the expediency of specific reference to the industrial evils as they present themselves today. f . , t We felt like applauding President Roosevelt for his interpid devotion to justice and fair play when I the announcement was maele that he had appointed a negro citizen as Collector of Internal Revenue ; in Xevv York. Members of this race should re- i j ceive all the encouragement that is consistent with j, . j the proper conduct of our civil service. Xow that ; we are informed by the Leader that Mr. Anderson f is an intelligent and loyal Catholic, we know that the President was animated by the highest motive of stalwart patriotism. ; ' s , . - f , Tlje slightest departure from the truth indi- cates a leaning towards the Father of lies. To I i forsake the divine Author of eternal truth is to - h 1 enter into the service of the Prince of darkness ) to sacrifice the higher spiritual self to the dom- . ; ; inanee of the ignoble creature that is content to M ; grovel in the slime of error and sensuality. ' ., "j. ; r I ' F f |